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package com.sun.corba.se.spi.resolver;

/**
 * Resolver defines the operations needed to support ORB operations for
 * resolve_initial_references and list_initial_services.
 */
public interface Resolver {

  /**
   * Look up the name using this resolver and return the CORBA object
   * reference bound to this name, if any.  Returns null if no object
   * is bound to the name.
   */
  org.omg.CORBA.Object resolve(String name);

  /**
   * Return the entire collection of names that are currently bound
   * by this resolver.  Resulting collection contains only strings for
   * which resolve does not return null.  Some resolvers may not support
   * this method, in which case they return an empty set.
   */
  java.util.Set list();
}
